Barara Hofer (Middlebury, Visiting Faculty) and Nobuo Ogawa (Middlebury, Resident Director) enjoy the sun at Kenrokuen Garden, one of Japan's top three gardens.

Lowell, Andrew, Monchalee and Colette pose for a photo.

Haruna and Lara stroll through the garden.

Finally! Andrew, Yoko, and Stephan manage to get Satake-san, Watanabe-san, and Fujii-san in front of a camera rather than behind one.

Stephan and Nicolas: keeping cool in the shade of a pagoda.

Andrew, a tea house, Stephan, McKenzie, Elizabeth, Karen and Rachel; Wynee, Justin, Watanabe-san, and Satake-san.

Quenching the thirst: walking around a garden is harder than it looks!

Hayshi Sensei (Japanese Language Faculty) and James Kodera (Wellesley, Visiting Faculty) pose with students.

A peaceful moment for Ben and Yoko.

Mariah, Venu, Nicole, Jennifer and Crystal.

AKPers and Ashley (visiting U.S. staff) on a bridge. We love Nippon!